Re: RFS: vfu (updated package)

2008-05-31 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette soirée bien amorcée du vendredi 30 mai 2008, vers 22:42, William Vera [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait: In fact, is not a bug, because vfu say 'support' for list and read, does not depend on them (unzip, bzip2, etc) for build o run the program. Well, without unzip, vfu is unable to

Re: RFS: vfu (updated package)

2008-05-31 Thread William Vera
Hi 2008/5/31 Vincent Bernat [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OoO En cette soirée bien amorcée du vendredi 30 mai 2008, vers 22:42, William Vera [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait: In fact, is not a bug, because vfu say 'support' for list and read, does not depend on them (unzip, bzip2, etc) for build o run the

Re: Need some tips on building Debian packages

2008-05-31 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080530 22:08]: Keep in mind that my background is in RPM building, where the emphasis is on distributing pristine source code. I was initially shocked/dismayed by the Debian approach because the source code gets untarred and fiddled with by the packager.

Re: RFS: hwinfo (updated package)

2008-05-31 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 31 May 2008, William Vera wrote: Dear mentors, Hi, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 14.17-1 of my package hwinfo. Looks solid. Uploaded. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89

Re: Need some tips on building Debian packages

2008-05-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
Paul Johnson wrote: While testing this out, I realize I've made some mistakes while attempting to revise the Makefile to match the packaging requirements. It appears to me that I have to 1) move the debian directory to a safe place, 2) erase the code tree, 3) untar a fresh copy, 4) copy the

New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

2008-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
OK, thanks for the advice yesterday. I think we are agreeing on principle, it is just the implementation that's concerning me now. I'm starting back at the basics. I'm building stuff for Ubuntu workstations. Because I don't know how to manage patches (did not decipher quilt or cdbs yet, but

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

2008-05-31 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 03:19:02PM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: I'm randomly downloading packages. If you can point me to one that has source code patches correctly applied, I'd really appreciate it. I want to get it right :-) http://packages.qa.debian.org/usermode The usermode source debian

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

2008-05-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just need to see some examples of how this can be done. I wonder if I'm running into a problem that is peculiar to Ubuntu. I can't find packages that follow the principles we were discussing yesterday. In fact, I can't find any that adhere to this

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

2008-05-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At this point, I've converted most of my packages to use Git, which means that the source package as uploaded to Debian has one collapsed patch including upstream changes and you have

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

2008-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just need to see some examples of how this can be done. I wonder if I'm running into a problem that is peculiar to Ubuntu. I can't find packages that follow the principles we were

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

2008-05-31 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 01 June 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --cut-- If there were 50 patches, some of which others contribute, there might be a chance to figure which one blows something up. As long as the patches are separate, there's a chance I could back-track and

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

2008-05-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
Paul Johnson wrote: At some point, I'm hoping to be able to generate format 3.0 packages from Git in some way that exposes the way that I'm actually working to other people working on packages. I can't understand why you would do it this way. Seems like it would lead to hard-to-catch

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

2008-05-31 Thread Russ Allbery
George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, will you generate at some point a series logically separeted quilt patches and store them in debian/patches/ in the final diff.gz which is the canonical way of Debian to distibute changes. I'm currently not doing this for a very prosaic reason: I

Re: Need some tips on building Debian packages

2008-05-31 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 30 May 2008 15:07:57 -0500, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Keep in mind that my background is in RPM building, where the emphasis is on distributing pristine source code. I was initially shocked/dismayed by the Debian approach because the source code gets untarred and fiddled